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Author Archives: Dae
Is it still possible to use an old 30-inch Apple Cinema Display with modern Macs?
Yes — Apple Cinema Displays from the 2000s (the aluminum ones with massive DVI cables) are still perfectly usable with modern Macs from the 2020s via USB-C. However, for the 30-inch model, you’ll need a slightly clunkier cable setup.
A trick to change card currency in PayPal when there’s no “Update” button
In PayPal, if you’d like to change card currency setting but the “Change” button is missing: The trick is to append /update-currency/ to the page URL and hit Enter.
Accusys Gamma Carry 8 RAID 0 vs. RAID 5 read/write speed performance
Accusys Gamma Carry 8 connected to a MacBook Pro via Thunderbolt 3.Hard drives: 8 × Western Digital 18TB WD Ultrastar DC HC550 WUH721818AL4206.Benchmarking software: Blackmagic Disk Speed Test running on macOS Sonoma.
How to change the order of your names on Facebook today?
This blog is a collection of my technical notes from working with information systems, not intended for the general public. However, Facebook’s user interface has become so convoluted that even simple tasks require a bit of technical knowledge and patience. … Continue reading
A trick to prevent Cyberduck from asking for a client certificate on macOS
Problem: Cyberduck on macOS will repeatedly prompt you to present a client certificate when making an FTP-SSL connection to certain servers (e.g. Synology). This issue arises if your macOS Keychain contains at least one personal certificate. If the server connection … Continue reading
Authentik: set custom username for OAuth application (e.g. for Apache Guacamole) via a property mapping
If you use Authentik (https://goauthentik.io/) as an OAuth authentication provider for your Apache Guacamole (https://guacamole.apache.org/) instance and you’d like to customize usernames for Guacamole, here’s how you can achieve this. The steps described below may work for other applications, wired … Continue reading
Guacamole 1.4: “Creation of WebSocket tunnel to guacd failed”
Problem: Guacamole 1.4 shows “internal error” when making any connection and in /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out you see something like:
Guacamole 1.4: “Log in failed” for RDP connections
Problem (Guacamole 1.4 while connecting to an RDP server): …and in logs:
Serving acme-challenges from two web-servers sharing the same domain via nginx
Say you have nginx listening on port 80 and sharing a domain with another web-server (e.g. Proxmox web-server) that is listening on a different port, and you want to route HTTP-01 (“acme-challenge”) requests to that second web-server.